The Potting Shed

[Tâf]

Shredded most of the prunings.The rest have been left to dry and rot where the beneficial insects live.

Cherry blossom is looking lovely... I need bee visits!

Land mown and fed, need to spike a few areas that have a little moss growth.

[Tâf]

Honeyberries sown. A night in the chilly greenhouse then they can come in to the heated propagator.

[Tâf]

Big sowing day yesterday:

Little Gem Lettuce
Chinese cabbage
Pak choi
Stringless beans Galaxy, Enorma and Armstrong
Climbing French bean Kentucky Wax
Chillies Hungarian Black, Jersey Devil and Devil's Brew
Cucumber Marketer
Tomatoes Koralik and Minibel
Pumpkin New England
Sweet Pepper Romano
Sweetcorn Mexican White Giant
Pepino fruit
Oregano and Basil

Plus a tidy-up of the plants that overwintered in the greenhouse:
Red and White Alpine Strawberries, Thyme, Chillies Patio Sizzle and Prairie Fire, Garlic

All the seeds are from last year, the only ones I will have to buy are French Climbing Beans Cobra

[fred]

Dad's replacement greenhouse was getting the glass fitted today.  Plan A is to get him some tomato plants tomorrow.

[Tâf]

I saw Tomtato plants on sale today (potato root with tomato greenery). £10 a plant! 

[Tâf]

Sowed a few hundred tubular beetroot and turnips in modules, the rest will go straight into the ground as slug bait.......... mwahahaha!!!!

[fred]

not doing 'cut and come again lettuice at dad's as SIL only sees the 'cut' bit.

[Tâf]

I bought "Living Salad" for a few pence, split the contents and potted them. I now have 12 large pots of lettuce ready for harvest.

[Tâf]

Moved the young White Alpine strawberry plants to the strawberry wall.

[Tâf]

Dug, fertilized and top-dressed the long raised bed, then transplanted spring onions, garlic and spinach.

Seedlings appearing in the greenhouse. 

[Tâf]

Transplanted more alpine white strawbs.

Dispatched a few slugs I found in the greenhouse. Pellets put down for the others that are hiding.

[dogsmum]

Yayyy my Bluebells are flowering! 

[Nana of 9]

Yayyy my Bluebells are flowering! 

Ours are almost finished. CTR loved them when she came over 

[Tâf]

Lawn mown, fed and watered.

Mucho potteringo....

[Tâf]

Bean seedlings transplanted. Failure rate in germination is quite high this year probably due to the drop in nighttime temperatures. Second batch to be sown soon.

I also transplanted the sweetcorn and a few others that were outgrowing their starter pots (cucumber and pumpkin).